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  Pope thinks hitting children is "Beautiful"

  by cofty in

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  one time, i heard a father in a meeting with married couples say `i sometimes have to smack my children a bit, but never in the face so as to not humiliate them.how beautiful!

  he knows the sense of dignity!

  he has to punish them but does it justly and moves on.

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  "There is NEVER an excuse for hitting children. One day our descendants will look back and wonder why anybody ever thought it was acceptable."

  It is acceptable because the alternative is not acceptable, i.e. their being brats.

  There are always acceptable reasons for hitting another person or animal. It reinforces the message and gets the person to listen and respect. I spank my dogs when they are bad. It is like using an electric fence to teach boundaries. And if someone does not like being hit, the don't allow it, use defense measures. Use offense measures to return the fire. Don't act like the hitter is always bad and the hitted is always a victim. The person is only a victim if they allow it. If it is bad then it should be stopped at that moment by the person declaring it bad. it is like saying that JWs were victims of Nazi persecution. No. The JWs allowed it. They could have fought back.
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  NAILING DOWN the fraud of John 1:1 by demonstration

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  2. bible

  call me crazy, but i love to watch seminary classes when sharp teachers are in charge of the instruction.. in the following video, the teacher really nails jehovah's witnesses on john 1:1 with utter simplicity.. begin at 1 hour and 20 minutes in.. i've never seen or heard of this before.. .

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_5qkj7tmbg.

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  I don't see your point. JWs are right about this. There is no trinity and Jesus is not Jehovah. That is simplicity.

  The 'theos' in John 1:1 is functioning as an adjective describing how the Logos was a spirit being, not declaring it as the supreme being.

  There has been so much added and we don't know what is real. Matt 28:19,20 with Father, son and Holy spirit was added because Jesus never taught such a thing. If it is that important of an issue, than God, Jesus and everyone should have made it more clear.
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  EXPERTS ONLY! A Pop Quiz on (current) Watchtower teaching

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  pop quiz on jw (current) teaching.

  1. was jesus 2nd coming in 1914?.

  2. is jesus 2nd (parousia) presence the same thing as his coming?.

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  1. I don't see where Jesus was supposed to ever have a second coming. So no. But he did become king of the messianic kingdom in 1914.

  2. Since there is no "coming", it is not.

  3. It is the same as the Catholic's "on this rock" doctrine. Something used to gain and hold power.

  4. No one knows.

  5. yes, the gentile times ended in 1914. 2520 years after they started in 607bce.

  6. We will see.

  7. yes

  8.why should the anointed read it?

  9. No one knows.
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  Magazine Routes March KM

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  improving our skills in the ministrydeveloping a magazine route.

  what does delivering magazines have to do with skills in a ministry?.

  "many people who enjoy reading our magazines do not wish to study the bible with us.".

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  Improving Our Skills in the Ministry—Developing a Magazine Route

  What does delivering magazines have to do with skills in a ministry?

  "Many people who enjoy reading our magazines do not wish to study the Bible with us."

  Really?  How many?

  "Try This During theMonth:  Make a list of those who could be on a magazine route. Offer them the current  issues of the magazines, and tell them that you will bring them the next issue."

  Brainless ministry
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  What could you have been if you were never a JW?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  oh, the possibilities!

  there is a lot of wasted talent.

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  Happy.
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  A Rigged Game

  by The Searcher in

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  2. beliefs

  when i was a young teenager, i went to london for a big convention.. while sightseeing in the centre of london, my friend and i stopped to watch a guy offering people the chance to win easy money - simply by picking the correct playing card out of three which he put on a little table.

  he called it, "find the lady".

  (aka 3 card monte) never having seen it before, i thought this was so easy to win money, but as an unbaptized witness, gambling was wrong, so i didn't participate.. on returning home after the convention ended, i related this experience to my non-witness dad.

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  How is the card game rigged and how can we win?
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  Field Service Reports Count More than Showing Love - Ray Franz CF Book

  by flipper in

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  2. friends

  i've always suspected this was the wt society's view when i was in the jehovah's witness organization - but never knew the head of the writing committee karl adams had written a letter to nathan knorr ( then wt president ) recommending a change regarding reporting field service time as it wrongly emphasized jw members being seen as mainly being approved due to field service statistics - instead of emphasizing christian qualities of love, kindness, peace, etc.. karl adams had been personally handpicked by nathan knorr to be the head of the writing department.

  in 1971 he wrote a letter to knorr which he wanted shared with the entire governing body as well .

  i'll share the main parts of that letter.. on pg.

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  " I'll just put 10 hours, 6 mags, and 2 rv on my slip at the end of the month and leave it at that."

   

  I would do that at the beginning of the month, just to see if they would notice.

  The fact that they only care about the CO and stats shows from when I stopped going out in FS and turning in FSR.  Several months later the Secretary said to me that he didn't have my reports for several months, and he said that he knew that I had been out as he saw me.  I just made up numbers for him since he was nice about it.

   He saw me when I wasn't out but they don't see me when I am.  just numbers for the CO.

   
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  More education bashing in April 2015 simplified watchtower

  by hoser in

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  2. beliefs

  elders in wealthy lands may find it difficult to encourage baptized brothers in their 20s or 30s to do more in the congregation.

  ex- perienced elders in about 20 lands told us why they believe that some young brothers do not do more in the congregation.

  most of them said that when some brothers were young, their parents did not encour- age them to set goals in jehovahs ser- vice.

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  Not only that but they get penalized by Obamacare for not having insurance.   I imagine that many will try to declare themselves exempt because of religion or too poor.
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  American Sniper - courage or cowardice?

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  the movie american sniper is breaking box office records and of course there is some irony that a movie about a sniper is released on martin luther king day (who was shot by one).. but of course there is a world of difference between an assassin and a military sniper ... or is there?.

  some are making a big stink about it and claiming that "snipers are cowards".

  it seems unfair to me.

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  If it is not hand to hand combat, it is cowardice.

  Unless a light saber is involved. 
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  Did you skip the meeting to watch the superbowl ?

  by av8orntexas in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i know we must have alot ofpeople on here huge football fans like myself.

  born and raised in boston, i am a huge sports fan, and of course patriots fan.

  so anyone here go to another meeting, makeup some bs excuse, illness, flat out miss the meeting or anything else to watch game if your meeting happened to go from the 9am to the 3pm in january ?.

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  A few years ago we had a Circuit assembly on Super bowl Sunday.  The DO mentioned it in his parts about people leaving early for the game.   Everyone around here has parties.